FYI, I've had no problem letting Claude code read iMessage and send iMessage from my Mac logged into iCloud. The first time you ask it to do that, macOS will throw up a security prompt asking for permission for Terminal.app to access the data, but its something I've been using a lot recently.
replyThey don’t let things connect to iMessage because they don’t want spam bots.
replyApps can integrate into iMessage, there's an API. You're thinking of sending and receiving actual iMessage messages as a full user, which they can't do.
replysame, the only reason why I haven't switched from instinct to dots is the surface being whatsapp
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replyI think it's reasonable to consider them self writing fictional characters, which people tend to anthropomorphize, but not as real persons.
replyIn 1952, people were arguing that using words like "instruction" and "memory" were anthropomorphizing computers: https://3e.org/private/ai_words.pdf
replyDo you refer to NPCs in a video game as "it"?
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